Ways to spend Easter-Time in the Lucchesia

Question: What to do over Easter if you’re around Bagni di Lucca? Answer: plenty!

My own selection (at present!) would be as follows:

April

17th

At Bagni di Lucca. Via Crucis. Traditional Good Friday procession

18^h

At 21.00 ‘Processione dei crocioni’ at Castiglione della Garfagnana. Re-enactment of Christ’s Via Dolorosa procession with Last Supper, Kiss of Judas, flagellation and Cross-bearing chained and barefoot white-hooded local as Christ. For more about this incredibly evocative manifestation see my posts at

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/feet-washing-and-cross-carrying/

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/the-passion-according-to-castiglione-di-garfagnana/

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/passionate-events-in-tuscany/

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/a-passion-evening-in-castiglione-della-garfagnana/

21^st

Pasqua (Easter Day)

As the Italian saying goes: ‘Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi’ (Spend Christmas with your family and Easter with who you like).

22^nd

Pasquetta (Easter Monday).

A traditional time in Italy for excursions, walks, cycling, perhaps even seaside Easter is so late this year.

How about this event?

Marlia, Villa Reale. All day. Botanical treasure hunt. (Specially for children but adults will find it amusing too). Discover new plants and flowers and enjoy the royal villa’s gardens.

25^th

Giorno della liberazione. Italian liberation day. National holiday. It’s liberation day in Italy from the axis powers. Perhaps there might soon be a liberation day in the UK from brexitism?

27^th

Lucca piazza dell’anfiteatro. Festa di Santa Zita. Flower market in celebration of Lucca’s patron Saint, Santa Zita. For more about this delightful festival and the sweet story of Saint Zita see my posts at:

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/from-flour-to-flowers-festa-di-santa-zita/

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/four-great-luccan-spiritual-women/

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/iced-up-in-lucca/

https://longoio3.com/2018/04/27/luccas-saint-zita-converts-flour-to-flowers/

28^th

At 15.00 Fornoli parish hall. Tombola (otherwise known as Bingo).

May

12^th Messa di Maggio (May Mass) at 11.00 at the Convento dell’Angelo, Ponte a Moriano. Singers from Accademia di Montegral directed by Gustav Kuhn. Shuttle service from Ponte a Moriano car park (behind theatre) at 9.30 returning at 12.00

For more on Easter time at Montegral see my posts at:

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/an-angels-monday/

https://longoio.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/easter-morning-on-the-mountain-of-the-holy-grail/

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/our-way-to-spend-easter/

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/how-we-spent-our-easter-2016/

https://longoio2.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/mshiha-qam/

https://longoio3.com/2018/05/16/stereo-tipi-choir-shine-on-holy-grail-mountain/

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For those of you unable to attend Bagni di Lucca’s Spring Jazz concert packed Chiesa Anglicana here are some photos of the event plus some video bits: